Contents: List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction to the research handbook on secession / Jure Vidmar, Lea Raible and Sarah McGibbon
Part I. Conceptualising the state
2. State creation and the concept of statehood in international law / Jure Vidmar and Lea Raible
3. The law of statehood as a constellation of hybrids / Jean d'Aspremont
4. The principle of territorial integrity / James Summers
5. Self-determination short of secession / Brad R Roth
6. Successful secession and the value of international recognition / Alex Green
Part II. International practice
Part ii.1 democracy and declarations
7. Independence referendums in international law / Daniel Moeckli and Nils Reimann
8. Distinguishing between declarations of independence and secession / Priya Urs
Part II.2 constitutional processes
9. Scotland's political and constitutional process: Negotiating independence under a flexible constitution / Silvia Suteu
10. The secession question in quebec / Patrick Dumberry
Part II.3 extraconstitutional processes
11. Secession of kosovo / Jure Vidmar
12. Extraconstitutional secession: The catalan case and its future / Pau Luque
13. Secession in liberal-democratic contexts: Lessons from catalonia / Pau Bossacoma Busquets
Part II.4 dissolution of states
14. Dissolution of states / Jure Vidmar
15. The dissolution of the ussr / Anne Østrup
16. From velvet revolution to purple dissolution: Dismantling of czechoslovakia from above / Tomas Dumbrovsky and Kristyna Urbanova
Part II.5 changing the narrative: Special cases
17. Jordan and palestine: Union (1950) and secession (1988) / Victor Kattan
18. Seceding from failed states: Reconsidering the case of somaliland / Sarah McGibbon
Part II.6 remedial secession
19. Bangladesh and the right of remedial secession / Abhimanyu George Jain
Part III. Consequences of secession
20. The law of state succession: Regulating the aftermath / James Gerard Devaney
21. Meaning(s) of illegality in secession processes / Enrico Milano and Niccolò Zugliani
Bibliography
Index.